2. What does the narrator tell the person that lives near her house?
(a) Not to light any fires.
(b) Not to urinate in the yard.
(c) To leave the following morning.
(d) To come inside to sleep.

3. Why did the housekeeper bring her son to the narrator's house?
(a) It is vacation time.
(b) The school is closed.
(c) It is after 5 p.m.
(d) The bus broke down.

4. What does the housekeeper call Mr. Vercueil?
(a) Garbage.
(b) Drunk.
(c) A man.
(d) Rubbish.

5. Where does Bheki sleep?
(a) The backyard shed.
(b) The guest bedroom.
(c) The pool house.
(d) The narrator's car.

6. What does the narrator spend the day doing according to page 15?
(a) Spends the day cleaning the house.
(b) Spends the day in bed reading.
(c) Spends the day writing.
(d) Spends the day gardening.

7. What does the narrator want to do before being discouraged from doing so by Florence?
(a) File a complaint about the police.
(b) Bring Bheki to the police.
(c) Bring Bheki to a white doctor.
(d) Call the mayor's office.

8. Who harasses and beats Mr. Vercueil one day?
(a) Bheki and another boy.
(b) Bheki and two other white boys.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Florence.

9. What does the narrator tell the person that calls her?
(a) That the pool house heats the pool.
(b) That the dog is hers.
(c) That the vagrant is in fact her employee.
(d) That the homeless man owns the dog.

10. What is the call the narrator receives while playing music about?
(a) A dog is loose on her property.
(b) A homeless man is exposing himself.
(c) A vagrant on her property.
(d) The pool house is on fire.

11. What does Mr. Vercueil seem to be sleeping off?
(a) The effects of liquor or drugs.
(b) The effects of his medication.
(c) The flu.
(d) A bad meal.

12. Why do the youth of the township do?
(a) Fight with white students.
(b) Burn their own school.
(c) Burn a police station.
(d) Drive white people out of the township.

13. What does the narrator ask Florence about?
(a) If she wants a puppy.
(b) The troubles in the township.
(c) How her husband is doing.
(d) If she can clean the homeless person's clothes.

14. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do after speaking with the police?
(a) To go home.
(b) To go rent a good movie.
(c) To prepare cocoa for everyone.
(d) To send Bheki's friend home.

15. When was the narrator's house burglarized?
(a) Five years before the events of the book.
(b) Twelve years before the events of the book.
(c) Three years before the events of the book.
(d) Four years before the events of the book.